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Saturday, January 18, 2014

The First Ridiculously Easy Contest of 2014

Guess what? It's time for another Ridiculously Easy Contest(tm)! Yeah, yeah, I know, the title of the post kind of gave it away. Anyway...

Want to win a free book? Of course you do. Who doesn't? In fact, I'm going to let you win two books because that's how I roll. And since I like things simple, we're going to keep this uber-simple. Answer a question, win a book. That's it.HOW TO ENTER: Leave a comment with an answer to the poll question. Please leave a name/nickname and an e-mail address as well.

HOW TO WIN: One winner will be selected at random. One will be selected based on the most creative, entertaining, original, or otherwise standout answer to the question.

WINNERS WILL BE DRAWN: February 1, 2014

THE PRIZE: Electronic copies of two (2) titles off my backlist. Your choice! This includes the soon-to-be-rereleased boxed set of the Cover Me trilogy.

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!

If there are at least 15 legitimate, non-anonymous* responses to the question, I will also draw a name for a signed paperback copy of your choice from my print backlist. (And if it's a Witt/Voinov book, I'll take it to the UK with me in February, have Aleks sign it, and mail it to you when I get back) This portion of the contest is also open to international entries.

(*note on anonymous posts: I don't mind anonymous settings, but there needs to be a name/email address in the text of the comment at least!)

THE QUESTION:

How many roads must a man walk down-- wait, sorry.

Okay, the real question:

If Zeus came back and decreed that for all eternity,
you could only read romances where one of the main characters
worked in a specific profession, what would that profession be?

See? Told you it was easy.

Winners will be selected and posted on February 1st, 2014, and have 72 hours to contact me to claim their prize.

Tricky. A job requiring physical effort to keep those bodies in good shape, and requiring intelligence because bright men are more interesting. Dry stone walling? - too esoteric, and possibly limited to the British Isles. I'll go for - renovator of old buildings.

Can I just say the medical profession and leave it there? Cause then I get hot doctors and hot nurses and hot EMT's. And as a bonus they hang out with hot firefighters and hot cops... I know this because that's how it was in the EMS Heat series... so if I say that then I could get all of my favorites in one foul swoop..

And maybe if I was lucky there could be an injured cowboy or two and some injured spies.. then I would be the happiest girl in all of the kingdom.

Though I thought about musicians and firemen for a second, I'd go with hockey players. The game, done right, is all about love and not hate. (Watch any two teammates being interviewed, and they will slash themselves onscreen within minutes, guaranteed.) There are so many unexamined scenarios involved in the hockey universe: injured player/trainer and so forth. There's a player type for every taste (rookie=twink! enforcer=bear!), too. I admit I've read very few satisfying hockey stories so far, but maybe Zeus can fix that, too...

Oh, that actually is easy. One MCs just needs to work in a profession where he/she can meet all other professions. So I was baffled that nobody else before had posted this....of course the oldest profession of the world: prostitute.Now...I wonder if I'm the one with the mind in the gutter...

OK, going to go with Navy SEALS b/c they 'travel' the world doing good; they have honour and committment to whatever they're sent to do; they have bodies to die for (or so I assume from reading so many books - I've never met a SEAL IRL :) ); and when they fall in love, they do it with everything they have - even the Dominant tendancies which I love!

I'm gonna say a construction worker/carpenter... Because you've got to love a man who knows how to work with his hands. If he had a secret sideline as an author, even better... Because nothing is sexier than brains/imagination to complete that package!...

Ooh, that's a really tough one! I really, really love romances about teachers/uni professors, so I guess it would have to be that. But then it would break my heart so hard to never be allowed to read Cut & Run again, so part of me wants to say FBI agents (I'm still allowed Nick and Kelly by association, right?)

But yeah, overall it would have to be the teaching profession.

And come to think of it, I could still get my Ty/Zane/Nick/Kelly fix, because I might only be able to READ one kind of book, but no-one said anything about limiting my audiobook listening...